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NITE STATES PATENT EEicE.

LEWIS A. ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS PRANG, OF SAME PLAGE.

CARD-HOLDER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,260, dated April 5, 1864.

Be it known that I, LEwIs A. ROBERTS, a resident ot' Boston, in the county of Sui'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Preparing Sheets ot Paper i'or HoldingOards, Pictures, or Photographs; and I do hereby declarethe same to be fully described in the following specification, and represent-ed in the accom panying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front View, and Fig. 2 acrossscction, of a sheet of paper prepared with my invention, the nature ot' which consists in providing the paper with recesses for the cards and with slits or holes for reception and holding the corners cf the cards.

In the drawings, A denotes the sheet ot' paper as made with or having made in it aseries ot' shallow recesses, a a a., each ot' which is provided with four slits, b b b b, made through the paper and arranged with respect to their recess as shown in Fig. 1. Each recess is iu'- tended to be of the length, thickness, and width of a card to be placed within it, or it may have a lepth or thickness somewhatl greater than the thickness ot the card. These recesses and their slits may be formed by suitable stamps and knives or cutters pressed upon the paper when properly supported within a press, or they may be otherwise made. The sheets of paper so prepared may be used in the construction of books for the preservation of cards, photographs, or pictures, the.

recesses serving not only to protect the cards from injury but to aid with the slits in keeping the cards iu place.

I do not claim making apiece of paper with slits for reception and holding of the corners 'of a card and for the purpose ot' confining such card to the sheet, :nor do I claim separately therefrom the making of a sheet of paper with recesses.

What I claim as my invention is- My improved paper, as made with one or more recesses and with slits arranged relatively to such recess or recesses, substantially in manner and for the purpose specied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set -niy signature.

LEWIS A. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

F. P. HALE, Jr., F. A. BRooKs. 

